# Summary of IRC Log from ##hplusroadmap (Feb 23, 2011)

• A discussion about automatic exploit generation took place, with links shared to a CMU project (http://security.ece.cmu.edu/aeg/) and subsequent critiques of the approach from security researchers.

• ENKI-[quit] proposed a libertarian distributed computing project, but kanzure noted that for genomic analysis most researchers use Amazon EC2, citing Crossbow which can analyze 35x coverage of a human genome in 3 hours for $85 using Amazon's cloud infrastructure.

• A conversation about ARM development boards occurred, with jrayhawk sharing a link to Leaflabs Maple (http://leaflabs.com/devices/maple/), an "armduino" development platform.

• kanzure criticized an article on H+ Magazine about an "Open Source Party," arguing that the political movement misappropriated the term "open source" and failed to understand the actual principles of open source communities.

• The discussion touched on gift economies in information sharing, with jrayhawk linking to Wikipedia articles about gift economies and their application to information sharing models.

• kanzure mentioned the potential value of offering cash rewards for hackathons to make them more interesting, referencing the FutureLabCamp event.